Option 4. Life will take care of itself, even if that involves the end of mankind, It's not your responsibility to fix anything.

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it is my god-damned responsibility. I use that word because if god is real, he is the god who damned this world!

now, if humanity goes extinct, you know what that means, if reincarnation is real........no more toilets, no more showers, living like a savage for a conceivable eternity...is that really what you want?

now, if humanity goes extinct, you know what that means, if reincarnation is real........no more toilets, no more showers, living like a savage for a conceivable eternity...is that really what you want?

Wow. I don't think I've ever heard anything like that in normal conversation, because I'd remember the violent vomiting that would have followed.

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Thus removing you from the conversation! Which works.

I can conceive of a lot of things I don't actually believe in. Santa - but the kids do. The whole Marvel comics thing. I know some of the storylines there, but I don't believe they are real. The Greek gods are pretty interesting from a perspective of how the Greeks had a god for just about everything. But again, don't really believe in them.

But that self-centered imposition is as problematic as religion; indeed, it is fundamentally religious.

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I disagree, self-centeredness is a psychiatric condition, where the person only acts from personal Self-centered interest.
OTOH, a religious zealot only acts from religious (God's) centered interest.....difference.

Of course, everyone acts from self-interest. Question is where the interest lies. In Self or in Other than self, that is what defines the psychiatric condition.

Of course, if you want to define religion as a psychiatric condition, I agree....

But that self-centered imposition is as problematic as religion; indeed, it is fundamentally religious.

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What does the self have to do with it other than it's the self which evaluates truth? And isn't it evidence rather than faith based, since it's based on lack of evidence where evidence should be abundant?